Watch That Post

[Premshree Pillai]

Hello,

I recently posted a simple Python script--Watch That
Post--that lets you watch a URL for any changes.

I wrote it to watch posts on LiveJournal, but it can
watch any URL.

It's at http://premshree.seacrow.com/code/python/watch

-Premshree Pillai

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[Steven]

Premshree Pillai wrote:

Hello,

I recently posted a simple Python script--Watch That
Post--that lets you watch a URL for any changes.

I wrote it to watch posts on LiveJournal, but it can
watch any URL.

It's at http://premshree.seacrow.com/code/python/watch

I tried running it. It works fine until it tries to run the watch function a
second time, then it does this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "watch.py", line 76, in ?
watch()
File "watch.py", line 58, in watch
size2 = len(urllib.urlopen(url).readlines())
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 76, in urlopen
return opener.open(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 181, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 410, in open_file
return self.open_local_file(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 420, in open_local_file
raise IOError(e.errno, e.strerror, e.filename)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'www.kde-apps.org'

I really like the idea,

Steven

[Peter Otten]

Steven wrote:

Premshree Pillai wrote:

Hello,

I recently posted a simple Python script--Watch That
Post--that lets you watch a URL for any changes.

I wrote it to watch posts on LiveJournal, but it can
watch any URL.

It's at http://premshree.seacrow.com/code/python/watch

I tried running it. It works fine until it tries to run the watch function
a second time, then it does this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "watch.py", line 76, in ?
watch()
File "watch.py", line 58, in watch
size2 = len(urllib.urlopen(url).readlines())
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 76, in urlopen
return opener.open(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 181, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 410, in open_file
return self.open_local_file(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 420, in open_local_file
raise IOError(e.errno, e.strerror, e.filename)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'www.kde-apps.org'

I really like the idea,

Steven

Try to provide the protocol:

import urllib
urllib.urlopen("www.kde-apps.org") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 76, in urlopen
return opener.open(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 181, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 410, in open_file
return self.open_local_file(url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 420, in open_local_file
raise IOError(e.errno, e.strerror, e.filename)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'www.kde-apps.org' urllib.urlopen("http://www.kde-apps.org") <addinfourl at 1078699980 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at
0x404b47d4>>

(Just a guess)

Peter

[Matt Leslie]

Steven wrote:

I tried running it. It works fine until it tries to run the watch function a
second time, then it does this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "watch.py", line 76, in ?
watch()
File "watch.py", line 58, in watch
size2 = len(urllib.urlopen(url).readlines())
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 76, in urlopen
return opener.open(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 181, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 410, in open_file
return self.open_local_file(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 420, in open_local_file
raise IOError(e.errno, e.strerror, e.filename)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'www.kde-apps.org'

I really like the idea,

Steven

The URLs in the url file need to start with http://

Matt